Word: honda
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...When I ask to see some of his earlier films, he insists on taking me to a cinema in the heart of the city to watch the films on the big screen. As we pick our way through the Trivandrum traffic in his boxy Honda, chasing down a couple of spare prints, Adoor decries "the bankruptcy of mainstream Indian cinema"; he quite proudly states that he almost never watches popular Indian films - except occasionally on TV, where "the commercials actually come as a welcome relief." Adoor's own preferences still run toward the aging European masters who first inspired...
...that when American Combat Engineers got ready to blow up the statue of Saddam in the An Najaf city center, two-dozen fighters calling themselves "the Coalition for Iraqi National Unity" were on hand. They rode into the square in on top of heavily armed Special Forces Honda trucks, full of smiles and waving to anyone with a camera. Throughout the day they were only too glad to pose for pictures in their newly issued equipment while brandishing AK-47's, often begging to be photographed. They all professed to wanting Saddam dead and shouted their willingness to fight...
...father drove a Town & Country wagon roughly the size of a supertanker. One day a forward-thinking uncle asked me, "Why does your dad drive that gas guzzler? Doesn't he give a damn about the planet?" When my father caved in and bought a Honda Civic, he displayed the zeal of the convert and--drunk on virtue and high mileage--indignantly began to point out land yachts everywhere. My brother and I, jammed into the backseat, felt differently. We missed the Town & Country...
...tariff on foreign light trucks in retaliation for a European tariff on U.S. chicken. The tariff still exists, but foreign manufacturers evade it by building light trucks at U.S. plants or in Canada and then importing them under the North American Free Trade Agreement. That's why BMW, Honda, Porsche a* And Toyota make SUVs, as will Volkswagen, beginning later this year...
Acura MDX 10% to 20% Ford Explorer 4WD, 4dr 20% to 30% Honda CR-V 20% to 30% Lexus RX 300 20% to 30% Subaru Forester...